There are definitely people running the bridge in the US, but if they want to peer is another story. Johnny On 2014-01-14 21:31, Mark Abene wrote: I'm going to try getting a GRE tunnel going with Dave McGuire soonish... In the meantime, if someone has a speedy connection and is already running 'bridge' (which would be simplest) let me know. Thanks, Mark On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:25 PM, <Paul_Koning at dell.com> wrote: On Jan 14, 2014, at 8:17 PM, Mark Abene <phiber at phiber.com> wrote: I'm not using the virtual cisco for HECnet at all, that's only for the X.25 project (currently at sampsa.com, though I may run a local node additionally). For HECnet I'm just running a plain old fashioned Johnny-bridge. :) I take it HECnet peers are lacking in the U.S.? I guess I should put my Python router up permanently... paul